DS Daily - 12th April 2013 |
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Pubs demand minimum alcohol price
The heads of pubs, nightclubs and breweries are pleading with David Cameron to stick to his plans to introduce a mininum alcohol price | Telegraph, UK
Comment: What can the UK learn from New Zealand's radical new drugs bill?
Only recently, news began to emerge of a 'ground-breaking' new approach to drugs in New Zealand – a legal framework based on the crucial principle that more control over drugs is better, safer and indeed more desirable than less control | Politics.co.uk, UK
Seminal studies of the impact of alcohol counsellor skills and support
In the alcohol treatment world, arguably studies don’t get more important than these landmarks in the relatively scarce literature about what makes some alcohol counsellors, therapists and treatment services more effective than others | Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK
Green grass of home: police crack down on cottage industry of cannabis
Over 7,000 cannabis farms were discovered last year, with a shift away from the larger scale farms set up by gangs | Guardian, UK
Rhoserchan drug rehabilitation unit in liquidation
A drug and alcohol rehabilitation unit in Ceredigion has gone into voluntary liquidation after battling money problems and a lack of referrals | BBC, UK
Police plan for Norfolk ban of super-strength alcohol
Shops across Norfolk could be asked to ban sales of cheap super-strength alcohol as local police look to replicate a scheme in Suffolk | BBC, UK
Scottish reoffending tackled in £7.7m scheme
The Scottish government is to allocate almost £7.7m to a scheme intended to reduce the country's reoffending rate | BBC, UK
Noel Young and Cumbria drugs gang jailed
Members of a Cumbria drugs ring which was run from a prison cell have been jailed after a four-year police probe | BBC, UK
Coronation Street star on cannabis storyline - video
Coronation Street character Sylvia Goodwin has turned to cannabis to help ease her arthritis in the latest storyline on the ITV1 soap | BBC, UK
Mexico government says drug-related murders down by 14%
Mexico's government says there have been fewer drug-related murders in Mexico since President Enrique Pena Nieto came to power on 1 December 2012 | BBC, UK
Afghan drug addict: "I've come here to be a normal person'' video
Jawid has been hooked on heroin for 10 years. He is 18 years old | BBC, UK
Universal Credit
Government overview of Universal Credit now on Gov.uk website| Gov.uk, UK
Only fifth of drug offenders serve 10 years
One in five serious drug offenders convicted under laws which attract mandatory minimum 10-year jail terms are serving 10 years or more in prison | Independent, Ireland
Hitting Rock Bottom
New docudrama web series portraying real stories of addiction and recovery, launching on April 12th | Hitting Rock Bottom, USA
Regulating density of alcohol outlets a promising strategy to improve public health
Despite potential, many public health agencies unaware of how to use regulation of alcohol density to address excessive drinking | EurekAlert, USA
Anxiety, Alcohol Linked with College Students’ Emotional Ties to Facebook
The dramatic success of Facebook has led researchers to study how emotionally involved Facebook users become with the social networking site and if certain common social precursors lead to Facebook connections with other people | PsychCentral, USA
The Rise of Mexico’s Vigilante Militias: Will They Help or Hurt the Drug War?
Clad in sombreros and baseball caps and clutching assault rifles, shotguns and machetes, the men take defensive positions on a hillside neighborhood of the ramshackle mountain town of Tierra Colorada and gather residents from their homes | Time, USA
NZ MPs fear drug legislation could affect kava
MPs in New Zealand fear a proposed new law aimed at stamping out harmful synthetic drugs could result in culturally important substances becoming banned | ABC News, Australia